“Sciences are differentiated according to the various means through which knowledge is obtained. For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.e. abstracting from matter), but the physicist by means of matter itself.” — Thomas Aquinas They taught […]
“Our play is called amateurish; and we wear proudly the name of amateur, for amateurs is but the French for Lovers. We accept all adventures from our Lady, the most disastrous or the most dreary. … The good painter has skill. It is the bad painter who loves his art. The good musician loves being […]
More than twenty years ago a friend of mine remarked at an occasion: The work of church ministers should lead to people not being in need of them. What I believe he wanted to say was too often the ministers worked so people were dependent on them. His remark has been my companion ever since. […]
It all started with those rumours about the helicopter money. If you haven’t heard about it that terms mean one-off money that government contemplates to ‘give’ to us. To revive the economy. Of course we know how it works. The government borrows the money, gives it to us, but we will have to repay the […]
Now if we take this house or home as a test, we may very generally lay the simple spiritual foundations of the idea. God is that which can make something out of nothing. Man (it may truly be said) is that which can make something out of anything. In other words, while the joy of […]
This video could not get into our Vita Aquatica collection as there is no spoken commentary in it. Anyway, the footage is beautiful so I wanted to share it here. Video pod textom sme nemohli pridať do našej zbierky na Vita Aquatica, keďže v ňom nie je žiadne hovorené slovo. Zábery sú však krásne, preto […]